This document discusses smart city initiatives in Manchester, England. It describes how Manchester has a history of innovation as one of the first industrial cities. It is now a collaborative city through initiatives like the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Manchester is also working to become a digital, smart city through projects like CityVerve, which has created an IoT network of sensors across a 2 square kilometer area. The document outlines several use cases for CityVerve around transportation, energy/environment, and health/social care, including using sensors and data to help manage chronic conditions and encourage community wellness.

1. Smart Cities and Communities:
Achieving Smart Urban Growth
Carmel Dickinson
Manchester Informatics, University of
Manchester
23rd March 2017
carmel.dickinson@manchester.ac.uk

2. • Leading the first Industrial Revolution
• Splitting the atom
• Building the world’s first stored
programme computer
• Discovering Graphene
Manchester: An Innovative City

3. Manchester: A Collaborative City
• Ground breaking devolution - £6bn p.a. health and
social care spend
• Cross sector collaboration
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority - 2 cities, 8 towns
• NHS
• Transport for Greater Manchester
• Industry large and small
• Universities

4. Manchester: A Digital City
• Connected Smart Cities Network
• Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
• EUROCITIES
• European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)
• Triangulum
• SynchoniCity
• CityVerve

5. CityVerve IoT Cities Demonstrator
2 Year programme
£16M investment
2km2 Innovation corridor
20 delivery partners – public and private sectors
Scalable, Replicable and Sustainable
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6. Network of sensors
Interoperability - HyperCat
Data Virtualisation - Platform of Platforms
Data analytics
15 use cases across
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7. Transportation use cases
Talkative Bus stop
City Concierge
Sensing Trams
ebike Sharing
Road Safety

8. Energy & Environment use cases
Next-Gen BMS Air Quality
Smart Place
Lighting
Smart ParkingCompliance Cost
Reduction
Building Retrofit Energy
Reduction

9. Health & Social Care use cases
Chronic Condition
Management
Community WellnessNeighbourhood Team
Support

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Chronic Condition Management
• Patients with Mild to Moderate COPD
• Objectives
• Improved patient activation
• Acceptability of technology
• Improved adherence to medication & exercise
regimes
• Increased confidence in self-management
• Increased satisfaction with QoL

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Chronic Condition Management
• Detailed picture of activity and experiences
• Wearables/smartphone app: Exercise, Location,
Experience Sampling
• Smart inhalers: Medication
• In-home sensors: Temperature and air quality
• External sensors: Weather and air quality
• Feedback to provide personalised coaching
• Actionable information to co-produce care plans

12. Bee Active
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Community Wellness
• People who work and study in the Oxford Road Corridor
• Children at local schools and their parents
• Objective:
• increase citizens physical activity through behaviour
change
• Progress towards a goal, e.g. steps taken, calories
burned, distance travelled
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• Context aware nudges to encourage more activity e.g.
feedback location, weather, transport, air quality
• Motivate walking with games, challenges, interesting
activities, ‘greener’ routes
• Use community wi-fi
• Rewards for increased activity
Community Wellness
Bee Active